circumstantiality

circumstantiality

[ser″kum-stan″she-al´ĭ-te]

a disturbed pattern of speech or writing characterized by delay in getting to the point because of the interpolation of unnecessary details and irrelevant remarks; seen in persons with schizophrenia and obsessive-compulsive disorders. See also tangentiality.

cir·cum·stan·ti·al·i·ty

(ser'kŭm-stan'shē-al'i-tē),

A disturbance in the thought process, either voluntary or involuntary, in which one gives an excessive amount of detail (circumstances) that is often tangential, elaborate, and irrelevant, to avoid making a direct statement or answer to a question; observed in schizophrenia and in obsessional disorders. Compare: tangentiality.

[L. circum-sto, pr. p. -stans, to stand around]

cir·cum·stan·ti·al·i·ty

(sĭr'kŭm-stan-shē-al'i-tē)

A disturbance in the thought process in which one gives an excessive amount of detail that is often tangential, elaborate, and irrelevant, to avoid making a direct statement or answer to a question; observed in schizophrenia and in obsessional disorders. Compare: tangentiality

"Because the evidence of causation in unwitnessed cases is often entirely circumstantial and the result must depend on the inference to be drawn from the circumstantial evidence, the [U.S.] Supreme Court [has] stated that it is not the function of an appellate court to search the record in such cases for conflicting circumstantial evidence 'to take the case away from the jury on the theory that the proof gives equal support to inconsistent and uncertain inferences.' Tennant v.

In the same way a vivid watercolor overlay can reinvigorate an illustration from 1830 -- as in the hybrid cover art of Lorna Hutson's Circumstantial Shakespeare--her reexamination of the compositional foundations of Shakespeare's work unveils rich new insights into his creative imagination.

The only conclusion that can be drawn from the circumstantial evidence brought before the court is that the defendants are guilty beyond reasonable doubt, state prosecutor Elias Stefanou argued on Wednesday, in his closing statement in the trial of former deputy attorney-general Rikkos Erotokritou.

He outlines what is known and not known about political polarization, historical and intellectual background on the current debate about it, and the major points of his argument: what direct and circumstantial evidence reveals, the extent of polarization in the electorate, the reason why parties are polarized, the masking of polarization by the pre-realigned ideologically heterogeneous parties, and the revelation of polarization by them.

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